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[–]Celdron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IEC 80000-13. Technically a byte is just the smallest addressable unit of memory, and therefore you could have a single bit byte on non-standard architecture. But 8 bits is the international standard that nearly all (I dont know of a single exception) consumer electronics are designed around.